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150 Since Whitman feels that he is as vast as nature, he rejects nothing of what he finds in nature, but seeks merely to transform it. At heart he would like to be as natural as trees and beasts. Nor was he ever again so happy as on

But he always aspires, through the body, to the life of the soul:

And when he would rise above the world and escape from things, he sends to the soul this lyric summons: